"I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time."

Life, Death, Purpose, Existence

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"I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time."

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Instead of clinging to the only Lifeboat that can save, we have tossed overboard biblical truths in the name of [compromise], living on the edge of life, like the man who rides the parameter of a hurricane, daring it to sweep him away."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"There is always a path to our target, the problem is to discover it!"

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"Collect memories, they are your precious property."

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"From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!"

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"I am born to win."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Abundance in life comes from generosity."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"To live in bliss, love everything, including people, unconditionally."

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"With a foggy mind you see nothing but fog!"

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"Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder."

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"The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it."

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"If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything."

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"Pointless... like giving caviar to an elephant."

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"The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies."

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"All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible."

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"Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency to get the book written."

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"Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything."

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"The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life."

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"The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey."

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